[Advocacy Advisors] Covering limited position letters in the WMF's guidelines for political advocacy

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

I generally think it is fair and necessary development. If we have already
decided on a certain issue it shouldn't take the same long process to
basically just say the same thing in a different way.

Personally, I see advocacy as a communications effort which is why I would
bump Communications up to "approval" and relegate Finance&Administration to
"consultation", but maybe that's just me.

Thanks for the work and you have my support!

Dimi

2014-09-12 22:45 GMT+02:00 L.Gelauff <lgelauff at gmail.com>:

> Sounds fair enough. What I understand from it is that you limit the
> general notice only if it has been discussed before, but you will still
> discuss it on this list - sounds reasonable.
>
> Thanks for informing!
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2014-09-12 20:42 GMT+02:00 Stephen LaPorte <slaporte at wikimedia.org>:
>
>> Hello advisory group,
>>
>> We are making an addition to the WMF's guidelines for Policy and
>> Political Advocacy. The purpose is to describe the WMF's approach to
>> joining advocacy letters on topics that are consistent with our previous
>> discussions on this list, such as advocating for the public domain, privacy
>> protections, and free speech. In some circumstances, it can be difficult to
>> share an advocacy letter publicly before it is finalized. Additionally,
>> letters are often finalized on a short time frame, since there is a usually
>> a deadline for when it will be effective, and this can pose some difficulty
>> for prior consultation on the exact language. Even with this addition to
>> our guidelines, we still aim to share letters on this list.
>>
>> You can see the addition here:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline#Limited_position_letter
>>
>> If you have any thoughts on these guidelines, you may share them on the
>> talk page:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen
>>
>> --
>> Stephen LaPorte
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>> Wikimedia Foundation
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